What do you see?

Landon was angry with me. I caught him and Mackenzee snuggling on the couch together the other day and hurried to grab my camera so that I could capture the moment. Mackenzee had laid out her pillow and her blankets and asked Landon if he would listen while she "read" stories to him. So, he had climbed on the couch and snuggled right up beside her. {PROUD mom moment here.}

However, when he saw my camera he quickly covered his face with the blanket. :0( What happened? All was going so well!

I'm a blogger. He knows it. He knows when I take pictures of him that they normally end up right here for all of you to see. It normally is not a problem. That day it was. Why? He was laying on a pink blanket, tucked under a pink blanket and he was sure that people would think he really LIKED the color pink. {heaven forbid!}

I looked at my oldest child, who holds one of the biggest pieces of my heart, and told him that he was SO wrong. I told him the people would see a picture of a little girl dressed in pink, with her pink pillow, and her pink blanket reading stories to her big brother, who was so awesome for taking the time to sit there with her.

I mean, what do you see?

I see a sister who completely adores her big brother. Who is so glad when he takes the time to be a part of her little world, as girly as it may be.

I see a brother who has such a good heart. Who, no matter how much of a pest she can be, will still let her be a part of his world.

Honestly, though I am quite partial, I think these are THE two cutest kids on the entire planet. Seriously.... :0)

Love you Landon. Thanks for letting me take the picture anyway. You are a sweet kid.

Pinewood Derby

Today was Landon's first EVER pinewood derby. He has been working on his car with his dad for over a month now and we just perfected it last night. :0)

The addition of Spiderman stickers was apparently a MUST. Sorry Perry! :0)

After weigh in, we found out that we were over the limit by .25 ounce. So, the drill came out holes had to be bored into the weights inside the car. Two weighs-ins and five holes later we were spot on and Landon's car was "officially" entered in the races.

Not too intimidating right? Chairs lined up alongside the steep downward slope of the racetrack.... :0)
Here are all of the boys {mostly} impatiently waiting for the races to begin. Cache, Reese, Brady, Landon, Davis, Brody, Paul, and the two new Hunzeker boys that I haven't been able to meet yet.
Thank you INSANELY SO to the cub scout and primary leaders who were brilliant as always. Mackenzee was elated to be able to build her own twinkie derby car and it kept her from freaking out over not having a derby car of her own. {Not that she had already done that several times this morning or anything...}

Landon lost his first race, won his second, and then lost his last race. I am so proud of him for being such a good sport and cheering on his friends as they won instead of pouting over his losses. In fact, all of the boys there were so good about the races and were so excited for their fellow cubs when they did well. Instead of a competition it was more of just a fun, good time for everyone. It was a really good Saturday morning.

Though there were awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places, the other boys received some form of award as well no matter if their car won or not. Grandpa Burnham will be proud to hear that Landon won for best overall paint job. All of the boys loved the shiny metallic red paint. :0)

This year's derby is now officially over. I'm sure that next year Jaysen will have plans on making Landon's car run faster down the track. He was already talking about what could have been the problem with this one.....something to with needing more graphite. :0) Whatever....

So glad you had such a fun morning Landon! I love you!

Nurse Mackenzee

I swear I was on my deathbed on Wednesday. I don't remember feeling that horrible in a VERY long time. Landon was at school and Jaysen was at work, which meant is was just me and Kenzee home, as usual. I could barely get out of bed. :0( It was yucky.

THANKFULLY, I had my own nursemaid to help me out. She brought me her Abby Cadabby blanket because she knew I was freezing. She was sure that she needed to bring me the "puke bowl". {For those of you not aware, this is simply a large plastic bowl that goes anywhere the sick-o in the house goes. I make my kids lay in their beds with their bowl. Cleaning up the mess is not fun, so if they take care of business in the bowl....it saves them and me the frustration} Kenzee brought me a bowl. :0) After the phone rang several times she went and got it for me so that I could just have it next to me. There was no way I was able to jump up and get the phone. She went and got me some crackers to eat and brought me a glass of water. She even went and found some story books and read them to me.

I'm telling you. I don't know that she could have done any better at helping me. She was so good all day {with a little help from Dora} and was so patient with her useless mommy.

Kenzee is such a fun, sweet girl. I'm so glad I have days like this to remember because honestly, there are some days when I wonder how I'm still alive as I try to deal with her stubbornness. :0)

Rock and Roll!

That's right....

Rock and roll Mackenzee style anyway. ;0)

She came up to me the other day pretending to play the PINK guitar hero guitar. It was hilarious. I'm not sure who taught her to play guitar this way....perhaps her brother....but she had some wicked awesome moves and was strumming away. I mean....look at that finger placement! :0)

The New 'Do

Mackenzee hates having her hair washed.

Mackenzee hates having her hair brushed.

The result of all of this? A big tangled mess on most days. As soon as I could get her looking somewhat decent...it was over. Such frustration!

So, I did what any frustrated momma would do.......

I had it chopped off yesterday.

What do you think? I'm loving it! And she is having fun showing it off. :0)

Genetics....

My kids are WEIRD!

I have NO idea where they get it from.......

Just thought I'd share.....

Weekend Getaway

Remember when I said that Jerome was going to State Basketball Tournaments? Well, we thought it would be fun to go up to Boise this last weekend and watch Haylee play. Their first game was Thursday night.

Unfortunately, Haylee didn't get to play at all in this first game, but it was fun to watch the girls work so good together out on the court. They won the game with no problems and were set to play the next night.

Since there was so much time to kill the next day, I had Jaysen drop me off at my sister's house so the kids could play with their cousins while he went off to play with the boys. The kids had so much fun hanging out together, too. (Landon was hiding in this picture)We took them back to the hotel for some swimming as that was Landon't main requirement for the trip. :0) Litte Paige had never been swimming before and couldn't get enough of the water. She was so funny splashing around in the kids pool, too. The hotel we stay at has a little 1 foot deep pool for little kids to play in, which we enjoy as Kenzee can play freely. Crystal and I didn't suit up, and figured we could just watch the kids enjoy themselves in the water. Well, little Paige had a different idea. She got a little overzealous and fell face first in to the middle of the kiddie pool. Now, she can stand up on her own, and she knows how to walk....but I think the whole shock of her face being underwater stalled her a bit too long. Crystal ended up having to jump into the kiddie pool to save little Paige. Of course, since the pool was only a foot deep, only her feet and bottoms of her pants got wet, but still! And Paige....yeah...she couldn't wait to jump back in. That little girl is busy! Besides that little snafu, all went well and the kids had a great time.

Crystal decided to take the younger two kids back home and then come back with Genea to watch Jerome play their second game of the tournaments. We were all excited to see the girls play again and had high hopes for them. So many Burnham's showed up to offer their support, too.

The game was a tough one. I think I yelled and screamed more than I have in a long time. Haylee got in a bit of playing time and it was so fun to watch her play. She is such a good player, and with only being a freshman, I can only imagine how good she will be as a senior. It was really close all the way through, and in the end, we thought we would come out victorious. We were up by one point with seconds left, and we ended up fouling one of the girls on the other team. She made both of her foul shots...and well....we lost by those two foul shots.

I felt so badly for the girls, and especially Haylee because I have seen how hard she is on herself. They still had one game left the next afternoon to try to make a slight comeback. They wouldn't be able to take first, but they could come close. Crystal decided to come back with her kids for that game as well.

We were all pumped and ready to cheer on the girls. Jaysen even got Kenzee a state t-shirt with Haylee's number on it. :0) Haylee played quite a bit during this game and showed off her wicked awesome basketball skills. :0) Yes, she totally made the shot here. :0) At the end, the girls beat out the other team and took 3rd place in the 4A Idaho State Girls Basketball Tournaments!It was a bittersweet win for them, though, as they lost out on a higher ranking by a one point loss. No matter what, we are so proud of you Haylee! You played well and Mackenzee told Jaysen she wanted to be a basketball player like you when she was bigger. :0) And, not only that...but I think Landon got a few pointers from watching Haylee play as well. We hurried back home after the last game so that Landon could still play in his game. We made it just in time too. But, Landon was far more defensively aggressive than he ever has been. I mean...hey...if girls can do it so can he. Right?